---
type: "Bill"
title: "Schools; requiring rather than allowing boards of education to adopt policies regarding suicide awareness training. Effective date. Emergency."
description: "Schools; requiring rather than allowing boards of education to adopt policies regarding suicide awareness training. Effective date. Emergency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ok"
legislature: "Oklahoma Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 21"
citation: "Oklahoma SB 21 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Floyd", "McEntire"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 25
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-02-01"
last_action: "2021-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/87512e9e-6c54-4e44-b2bb-fd6afd03e799"
source_url: "http://www.oklegislature.gov/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=SB21&session=2100"
source_hash: "4774440b814359cde5ee99e1c67adc294c9ad52dc13f1e7c73509e8d4a8e3805"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ok"]
---

# Oklahoma SB 21 (2021) — Schools; requiring rather than allowing boards of education to adopt policies regarding suicide awareness training. Effective date. Emergency.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 INT/SB/SB21 INT.PDF)
2. **Committee Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS/Senate/SB21 CA1.PDF)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENGR/SB/SB21 ENGR.PDF)
4. **Enrolled (final version)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 ENR/SB/SB21 ENR.PDF)
5. **Floor (House)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/HFLR/SB21 HFLR.PDF)
6. **Floor (Senate)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 FLR/SFLR/SB21 SFLR.PDF)
7. **Senate Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22 COMMITTEE SUBS/SCS/SB21 CS.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Floyd — primary (person)
- McEntire — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2021-02-01** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-02-01** Authored by Senator Floyd
- **2021-02-02** Second Reading referred to Education Committee then to Appropriations Committee `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-09** Reported Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Education committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-09** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-09** Coauthored by Representative McEntire (principal House author)
- **2021-02-18** Coauthored by Senator Stephens
- **2021-03-03** Reported Do Pass, amended by committee substitute Appropriations committee; CR filed `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-09** General Order, Considered
- **2021-03-09** Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 45 Nays: 0 `passage`
- **2021-03-09** Referred for engrossment
- **2021-03-10** Engrossed to House `passage`
- **2021-03-10** First Reading `introduction, reading-1`
- **2021-03-22** Second Reading referred to Common Education `reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-06** CR; Do Pass Common Education Committee `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-06** Coauthored by Representative(s) Randleman, Rosecrants
- **2021-04-15** General Order
- **2021-04-15** Coauthored by Representative(s) Russ, Pittman
- **2021-04-15** Third Reading, Measure and Emergency passed: Ayes: 94 Nays: 0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-15** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2021-04-15** Referred for enrollment
- **2021-04-19** Enrolled, to House
- **2021-04-19** Signed, returned to Senate
- **2021-04-19** Sent to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-22** Approved by Governor 04/22/2021 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/87512e9e-6c54-4e44-b2bb-fd6afd03e799`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Oklahoma legislature records).